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Hwaet
Mar 14, 2020 17:21:12 GMT
Post by kikashi on Mar 14, 2020 17:21:12 GMT
If the question had been "what does hwaet mean?", I agree it would have been a "so what" question of no real interest and I wouldn't have set it. That wasn't the question, however: the point, which had attracted a fair amount of comment when Heaney's translation was published, was that his translation of the word was very different from what had previously been considered correct. See, for example, this article. I had found that interesting and remembered it: hence the question. Jeremy
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